On Friday of last week a short segment about the Mexico City Metro Project was aired on ‘Itinerario’ (Itinerary), a show on Canal Once (Channel Eleven) which is owned and operated by the Instituto Politecnico Nacional. I was interviewed by host Tamara De Anda and we did a mini tour of a few of the […]
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CONTRABAND HITS GUATEMALA (TRANSLATION)
It is well known that drugs, particularly cocaine, transit through Central American nations before reaching Mexican cartels and the lucrative US market. This report, in todays edition of Mexican newspaper El Universal , shows that Central American nations are also the source and destination of smuggled goods, products which are otherwise legal. The article investigates how […]
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¡VIVA MÉXICO! HEROES ON DISPLAY
Although Independence Day was over a week ago, Mexico City remains awash in Green, white and red. Today I passed by the government offices of Cuahtemoc, one of the 16 boroughs of el DF (Federal District). Giant banners with quotes from Mexican independence heroes drape the buildings. The fatherland comes first. VICENTE GUERRERO Dying is nothing when […]
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THE PRESIDENT MUSTN’T BE HIS WIFE’S HANDBAG (TRANSLATION)
Currently in Peruvian politics it seems that there is a classic old case of “who is wearing the pants?’ According to the columnist Federico Salazar, as well as many Peruvians, the answer is first lady Nadine Heredia and not the Peruvian President Ollanta Humala. Salazar writes that this conception, whether it is true or not, […]
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MEXICO CITY EARTHQUAKE: 29 YEARS ON
Today, September 19, marks 29 years since the earthquake of 1985 which devastated Mexico City leaving thousands of residents dead. Official estimates placed the death toll at approximately 10,000 although some placed the figure as high as 45,000. Even when the epicenter of an earthquake is quite far away, in this case off the Pacific Coast […]
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URUGUAYAN TIMES
A few years ago I spent around four days, if I remember correctly, camping at the Club de Pescadores (Fisherman’s Club) in the western Uruguayan town of Paysandú. I was there for the renowned semana de la cerveza which sounds a whole lot more civilized than ‘beer week’. Each day followed a similar pattern. I […]
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MEXICAN INDEPENDENCE 2014
El grito de Dolores (The cry of Dolores) marked the start of the Mexican War of Independence in 1810. It was priest Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla who gave the call. Each year on this day, September 15, the cry is reenacted all over Mexico in small pueblos and pulsating large cities. Of course the capital hosts […]
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COSTA RICA TO MAINTAIN DISTANCE WITH NICARAGUA UNTIL ICJ DELIVERS VERDICT (TRANSLATION)
“Los Ticos (Costa Ricans) and “Los Nicas” (Nicaraguans) are currently not the best of buddies. Their dispute over their shared border has been going on for a while. Read more about it here. Costa Rica, a country with no standing army, is putting its faith in the Internation Court of Justice. Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega seems […]
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CORNERS OF THE CITY # 1: JARDIN DE LA TRIPLE ALIANZA
While I was walking around the streets of Mexico City’s centro historico a couple of weeks back, I had an idea to start a series of snapshots of interesting corners that I come across in my wanderings in the city. Of course, the streets of the Mexican capital hold all sorts of intrigue beyond the corners. For months I […]
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FROM THE EASEL OF NICOLÁS MORENO
Not only have I painted these landscapes, I have lived them as well. Up to the point it has been possible, I have worked in difficult conditions: wind, heat and cold. I have set up my easel in an infinite number of places in our country and abroad. From those places I took away not just […]
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LATIN AMERICA FOCUS 